I think I'm going to have to completely disagree on this one. I RARELY plug anything into a computer to simply charge it. I'd venture almost never. The idea that I HAVE to plug a device into a computer to charge it is completely ridiculous to me. I'd bet my experience as a product marketer that consumers would feel similarly. My expectation of a cell phone (based on precedent) is that I get a wall charger with my phone. Even Apple didn't break this precedent with the iPhone. You can plug it into a cradle (connecting to a system), a wall charger, or a vehicle accessory charger.
That being said, I don't know whether this "custom charger" is just a modified USB cable or an actual wall charger. Again, based on precedent, my expectation was that it was a wall charger. Thinking about it now I realize that perhaps that was not a good assumption to make. Just my 4 1/2 cents. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Marcus Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:38 +0200, Erland Lewin wrote: > > 2008/4/14, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 1. We have a custom charger that can fast charge the phone. > > 2. Standard usb chargers will work just fine. > > > > How long will charging the phone take with the fast charger vs. a > > normal charger? > > > > If a standard USB charger will take on the order of 12 hours (1200 mAh > > battery / 100 mA, probably more due <100% efficiency), that is really > > borderline of what sounds acceptable, if an overnight charge won't be > > enough to fully charge the phone. > > There have been plenty of discussions about this on the lists and the > great news is that the Neo can use any USB charger. > > I have a Neo 1973 and use it on a daily basis. The great thing is that > you don't need any special charger, you can use any $5 charger and it > works. There is a small program out there that can pop up a dialog > whenever it sees the Neo only charging at 100mA and asking if you want > to draw 500mA. > > It really is a non issue. I have a couple of those chargers for > home/office/car/travel and they all work and charge plenty of other > devices too. IMHO a great design decision to use USB for charging. > Finally there is an end coming to have all these different chargers > around. > > So I just can second Steve: > "2. Standard usb chargers will work just fine." > > Marcus > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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